Dickson Despommier
Dickson D. Despommier | |
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Despommier in 2014 | |
| Born | Dickson Donald Despommier June 5, 1940 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | February 7, 2025 (aged 84) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Fairleigh Dickinson University (BS), Biology Columbia University (MS), Medical Parasitology University of Notre Dame (PhD), Microbiology |
| Known for | Vertical Farming Medical Ecology of West Nile Virus Urban Sustainable Agricultural Initiatives Emerging Infectious Disease Ecology The Trichinella Page Medical Ecology The Vertical Farm This Week in Virology |
| Awards | American Medical Student Association National Teaching Award 2003 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Parasitology Ecology |
| Institutions | Columbia University Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Thesis | The in vivo and in vitro analysis of acquired resistance to Trichinella spiralis infections in mice. (1967) |
Dickson Donald Despommier (June 5, 1940 – February 7, 2025) was an American academic, microbiologist and ecologist who was a professor of microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University. From 1971 to 2009, he conducted research on intracellular parasitism and taught courses on parasitic diseases, medical ecology and ecology. Despommier received media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming.